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Mike Sims June 15th, 2013 06:10 PM
Trap-door Spider
 
Shot with Canon 550D, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro, Aputure Amaran AHL-C60. The silk-lined burrow is about fifteen millimeters in diameter. The first clip is real time and the second is the same clip slowed by shooting at 60fps and conforming to 24fps.

Trap-door Spider on Vimeo

Alastair Traill June 15th, 2013 10:32 PM
Re: Trap-door Spider
 
Impressive! How do you find the trapdoor?

Trond Saetre June 16th, 2013 11:41 AM
Re: Trap-door Spider
 
Very cool!
Impressive moments you captured.

Mike Sims June 17th, 2013 06:12 AM
Re: Trap-door Spider
 
It was simply luck, Alastair. I watched her building the burrow. Even so, later I absolutely couldn’t see the door at all.

Thanks, Trond.

Mark Koha June 22nd, 2013 09:04 AM
Re: Trap-door Spider
 
Cool video but damn that's gross.

Alan Melville June 23rd, 2013 04:54 AM
Re: Trap-door Spider
 
That was great, but I think I may step carefully from now on!!!!!! :)

Al

Woody Sanford June 23rd, 2013 12:51 PM
Re: Trap-door Spider
 
That's awesome!

Kenneth Burgener August 11th, 2013 05:17 PM
Re: Trap-door Spider
 
Glad they are small things!

J. Stephen McDonald January 17th, 2014 02:34 AM
Re: Trap-door Spider
 
Impressive catch. It reminds me of a Sci-Fi movie where things like that came up from the ground and grabbed people.

Tim Lewis January 17th, 2014 03:25 AM
Re: Trap-door Spider
 
Stephen, do you mean the cult classic "Tremors"?

Mike Sims January 17th, 2014 10:02 AM
Re: Trap-door Spider
 
I should have mentioned that this species of spider is not native here. It was introduced at a nursery in Austin (south of the river) in the 1980’s in a shipment of tropical plants from Africa and spread south from there. For a while they were fairly common in some areas but our recent drought has knocked their population back. We have two species of local trap-door spiders (They are unrelated to each other and to this species. Trap-doors are a type of behaviour widely found among spider taxa.). Both of the native spiders are very uncommon. I last saw one twenty years ago. This spider now lives in a photo terrarium and I hope to get more similar footage with my new high frame rate camera. (I bought the Edgertronic after a DVInfo heads-up from Tim Lewis. Thanks, Tim!) Unfortunately, now that she is well fed, she is rather reluctant to perform under the lights and starving an animal to make it easier to record doesn’t fit well with my philosophy. The waiting game continues…


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